My experience with Babylon

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aeronca1

SOH-CM-2022
Spent about 2 hours trying to remove this from my system earlier. I have no idea where it came from, I haven't installed anything on this laptop in weeks other than the Firefox and Thunderbird 6.0 updates, yet up came Babylon today.

I followed every link to various fixes, but nothing seemed to eradicate it totally. I use Firefox 6.0 as my primary browser and it was a B to remove everything. After everything, FF and TB wouldn't load. I restored to an earlier point and nada.

I finally had to D/L FF and TB fresh, reinstall and all seems to be fine except for 2 orphan entries in "about:config" in FF.

I still have no idea where this thing piggybacked from, but would like to know to avaid it again!
 
aeronca1 said:
I still have no idea where this thing piggybacked from, but would like to know to avaid it again!
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It is (apparently) adding itself to Firefox installs, despite peoples best efforts; I assume it is with the knowledge of the good people at Mozilla. Needless to say, FF 6 is NOT being added to my system in a hurry.
 
If it's malware, try the usual goons Spybot/Adaware/Malwarebytes/etc plus F-Secure online scanner. If it's just a burr to remove see if it comes up in the Revo uninstaller utility and select the most thorough removal option.
 
Re: Same

I went from Firefox to Google because of too much spam. I would avoid anything that
adds a toolbar to your existing search bar, you just never know. I use Revo uninstaller
it gets rid of all of it.There's a freeware version out there. In one day I had 40 spam mails with
Firefox. I also cancelled some of my subscriptions. I did a google search for babylon and this is
what i found, maybe it'll help you track down where you got it from.

Translation by Babylon is a free online version of Babylon's translation software. Translate English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese and more ...
 
My looking indicated it is a search toolbar like Bing, although it may translate as well. When installing so many things these days they sneak in other stuff that usually you can head off during the install by unchecking something. For the tougher ones, that typically involve the registry, you can try these: Revo uninstaller that I mentioned before, or go to Start/Run/services.msc and look for Babylon and disable it,or go to Internet Options and look for plug-ins then for Babylon and disable it there. May be more involved but using System Restore to get back to a date before Babylon showed up might work too. My kid once got a different video player that installed Click Potato- a selling device- as well. Revo had it listed separately and removed it registry and all.
 
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